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Inside the historic Palazzo Benvenuti, in Via Belenzani, new spaces open up to host, from time to time, companies, associations, events, exhibitions, conferences and training. In addition to the beautiful internal courtyard, we find Sala Nones, with 80 seats and a modern audio and video system. The new Clhub - Cassa di Trento for business innovation, regional business innovation hub and club ready to collect - and physically welcome in dedicated coworking and networking spaces - members, customers and citizens interested in entrepreneurial innovation. Finally, Palazzo Benvenuti Caffè, an elegant café that makes the beautiful ballroom of the palace available to the community.16per10 - 160 Anni di Informazione alla Luce del SoleIl Sole 24 Ore celebrates a special birthday and organizes an open air exhibition that traces the key moments in Italian and global history through the pages of the newspaper. An experience designed to accompany the visitor along an immersive journey through the history of the newspaper and, together, the history of Italy and the world. The exhibition will be inaugurated on the occasion of the Trento Economy Festival, from 22 to 25 May 2025. Historical images and covers of Il Sole 24 Ore will tell the economic and social evolution, testifying to our commitment to telling reality with rigor and passion.​

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 Palazzo Benvenuti - Sala Nones

The largest theatre in the city is located in a complex which, until the 1960s, housed the Santa Chiara city hospital. Renovated in 2006 in a contemporary style, the Auditorium offers perfect viewing and acoustics from all 800+ seats. Just a stone's throw from Trento’s historic centre, it is easily accessible from the city’s hotels and train station.For all events taking place at Auditorium Santa Chiara, you can collect the entry tickets directly at the venue starting two hours before the event begins.

Auditorium Santa Chiara

The former S.I.T. building on Via Calepina - Piazza Vittoria has been the historical headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce since 1947. In its halls this autonomous public body performs a multiplicity of functions all traceable to the common definition of market regulation.

Camera di Commercio di Trento – Sala Calepini

With marvellous frescoes and crenelated towers, Buonconsiglio is the most important castle in Trentino. Having served as the seat of the Prince-Bishops of Trent for centuries, today the castle is home to the provincial art and archaeology collections and the famous Torre Aquila, whose walls are frescoed with the renowned “Ciclo dei Mesi” (“Cycle of the Months”), an international Gothic masterpiece. A number of Festival dell’Economia events will take place in its Sala Gerola, which seats 110 people.

Castello del Buonconsiglio - Sala Gerola

Historic cinema in the heart of Trento, Cinema Vittoria, also known as "Supercinema", has been a point of reference for all cinephile enthusiasts in the province since 1939. Its large room on two floors was designed by the architect Giovanni Lorenzi with a room in Art Deco style.For all events taking place at Cinema Vittoria, you can collect the entry tickets directly at the venue starting two hours before the event begins.

Cinema Vittoria

An illustrious concert hall in a building on Via Giuseppe Verdi, which harks back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the numerous musical associations (Musikverein) once found in Ljubljana and all the way to Vienna. It is home to the Philharmonic Society of Trento, founded in 1795. It boasts a beautiful organ, dating back to 1906.

Filarmonica

Palazzo Calepini, currently serving as the headquarters for Fondazione Caritro, dates back to the late 16th century and was built at the behest of the noble Calepini family from the Giudicarie valleys. Between 1823 and 1844, Palazzo Calepini served as the seat of the Prince Bishops of Trento. In 1999, the building was acquired by the foundation to be used as their institutional headquarters.

Fondazione Caritro - Sala Conferenze

This brand-new building is located in Trento’s Albere district. Recently opened, it contains a 250-seat auditorium and a number of event rooms, one of which can accommodate 99 people. When the building was under construction, special attention was paid to environmental sustainability, with specifications for energy and acoustic insulation. It is also equipped with a radiant panel-operated heating and cooling system.

ITAS Forum

The MUSE, opened in 2013 and designed by the architect Renzo Piano, is located in the new Albere district of Trento. One of the most frequented science museums in Europe, it combines the traditional exhibition techniques of the best natural history museums with interactive and multimedia routes, which stimulate the curiosity of visitors.  The building, with its profiles, large spaces and bright and light architecture, aims to be in itself a metaphor for the mountain, and proposes the visit of different natural environments, including a large tropical greenhouse.

MUSE - Museo delle Scienze

The Diocesan Museum is located in the splendid Piazza Duomo, next to the Cathedral of San Vigilio, in Palazzo Pretorio. In its rooms it exhibits a rich heritage of art and culture ranging from the 11th to the 19th century: paintings, wooden sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, iconographic testimonies of the Council of Trent, precious goldsmith's art, ancient embroideries and sumptuous Flemish tapestries.
The museum also manages the early Christian Basilica of San Vigilio, the Porta Veronensis (1st century AD), or the ancient monumental entrance to the Roman Tridentum, and the Civic Tower, which with its 45 meters high is the unmistakable symbol of the city.

Museo Diocesano Tridentino - Sala degli Arazzi

Home of the Ciani Bassetti barons from 1600 to early 1900, the building is characterized by the style of the facade, of Renaissance derivation. While maintaining the previous score, it was renovated in 1883 by engineer Saverio Tamanini, one of the most famous Trentino professionals and, in 1939, by architect Marco Martinuzzi, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 2000 the entire building was renovated to a design by the Trentino architect Sergio Giovanazzi.The events that will take place in this location will be organized by Intesa Sanpaolo.

Palazzo Bassetti

Once the seat of the provincial and regional councils, this splendid room inside the Palazzo della Provincia Autonoma di Trento (formerly the Imperial Hotel Trento) takes its name from the artist who designed, furnished and fully decorated it between 1953 and 1956 — Rovereto-born Fortunato Depero, whose artistic trajectory spanned Futurism, Cubism and Abstract Art, resulting in his unmistakable style.

Palazzo della Provincia - Sala Depero

Overlooking Piazza Dante and standing opposite Trento's train station, the building is a stone’s throw from the historic centre. This building was built between 1958-65 as part of a project by Trentino architect Adalberto Libera (1903-1963), a leading figure in Italian rationalist architecture.

Palazzo della Regione Autonoma Trentino Alto Adige - Sala di Rappresentanza

Via Belenzani, once called Contrada Larga, is the main street leading to Piazza Duomo and one of the city's most atmospheric streets, surrounded on both sides by Renaissance palaces decorated with beautiful frescoes. Palazzo Geremia, today the seat of the Trento City Council, is one of these: inside there are several rooms - beautifully frescoed and often still with their original wooden ceilings.

Palazzo Geremia - Sala di Rappresentanza

Palazzo Sardagna, current home of the offices of the Rectorate of the University of Trento, is one of the masterpieces of Mannerism and early Baroque in Trentino. Dating from the 16th century, the building is built around a large central courtyard, the largest among those found in the city's historic buildings. From the exterior, walking through the entrance hall embellished with heraldic coats of arms, one enters the courtyard punctuated by a double order of loggias and long galleries.

Palazzo Sardagna – Sala delle Scienze

The palace was built shortly before 1740 on the initiative of the noble Trentini family. The façade, developed in height and characterized by a sober balcony, is among the most elegant of the eighteenth century in Trentino. The interior rooms were decorated between 1750 and 1765 by the Veronese painters Giorgio Anselmi and Orlando Fattori, the Bolzan painter Carl Henrici and the Milanese painter Pietro Antonio Bianchi. Also notable are the exuberant white and gold stucco and the majolica stoves in rococo shapes.Palazzo Trentini is now the seat of the Council of the Autonomous Province of Trento, with the Presidency and all the offices of the entity. The Sala dell 'Aurora, which will host some of the Festival's events, is considered the Palace's most prestigious venue. It is dominated by a large vault decorated with fake architecture and frescoed around 1750 with the Triumph of the Dawn, an allegory of the rise of the Trentini family, by an excellent Venetian school artist whose identity is still disputed by scholars.

Palazzo Trentini – Sala Aurora

Named after the Trentino irredentist Cesare Battisti, this city piazza is different from others. Its buildings are a 1926 Rationalist reconstruction of the historic, demolished Sas district. Beneath the square lies the ancient Roman Tridentum, an entire Roman district with the remains of a road, houses featuring mosaics, and even a long stretch of the eastern city wall.

Piazza Cesare Battisti

In the heart of the historic centre, Piazza del Duomo is Trento's “sitting room” where tourists and locals rub shoulders, surrounded by Renaissance palaces, the crenelated walls of Palazzo Pretorio and the lateral nave of the cathedral, dedicated to the city’s patron saint, San Vigilio.In this square there is the Bookstore, the Library of the Festival of Economics.

Piazza del Duomo

Standing in the shadow of the ancient ramparts, for a long time Piazza Fiera was the beating heart of the city's markets and commerce, hence its name (which means “fair” or “market”).
The wide open spaces make Piazza Fiera ideal for hosting large business events, as well as cultural and musical gatherings. It serves as an important intersection for the city’s public transport, and the underground multi-storey car park means it is easily accessible by car.

Piazza Fiera

The square is named after Resistance martyr Mario Pasi, who served as a doctor at the Trento hospital during World War II. Embellished by the fountain produced by Andrea Malfatti depicting the god Bacchus, the small square has been a meeting point since the 14th century, where peasants bargained wages with landowners.

Piazza Pasi

Located near the station and a short walk from the historic centre, the inCooperazione room was built in the 1970s when the building was built, now the headquarters of the Trentino Federation of Cooperation. Recently renovated, in its almost 50 years of activity it has also hosted two Presidents of the Republic.The events that will take place here will be organized by Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione

Sala inCooperazione

The stage of Teatro Sociale has been graced by the likes of Arturo Toscanini and Enrico Caruso. It has played host to Italy’s finest operas and plays, not to mention dance shows, New Year’s Eve parties and political rallies. A splendid example of Italian-style theatre, from 1819 until the 1960s, it served as the main backdrop of the city’s cultural scene. In 2000, after being purchased by the province and significant restoration works, it was returned to its former glory.
The stalls, three floors of boxes and the gallery can seat up to 670 people, while the elegant rooms of the adjoining Palazzo Festi are often used for meetings and conferences.To attend the events at Teatro Sociale, you can collect the entry tickets directly at the venue starting two hours before the event begins.

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Fondazione Caritro is a private non profit institution of banking origin, and it’s been active since 1992. The institution thoughtfully manages its precious heritage and redistributes its wealth in the Trentino region pursuing public goals by supporting the fields of research, culture, social and education through various projects and initiatives.

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Sfida a suon di parole

For over 15 years he has been involved in pedagogy and social entrepreneurship, he has directed the Cottolengo schools in Italy and founded the Giuco association for sports integration and the Breakcotto social enterprise, which has a national reach and involves more than 200 collaborators.

Doctor of Social Pedagogy

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Andrea Bonsignori

Fabio Ciciliano, today Prefect, was Medical Director of the State Police, Secretary of the Technical Scientific Committee during the Covid Emergency and is today Extraordinary Commissioner for infrastructural and social redevelopment interventions functional to highly vulnerable territories and Head of the Civil Protection Department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

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Fabio Ciciliano

Maria Luisa Colledani, Friulian from Spilimbergo, classical studies. After a few years at Messaggero Veneto, since 1999 she has been working at Sole 24 Ore, where she writes about art and sport.

Maria Luisa Colledani

Graduated in Sociology, she has worked for several years in assistance, care, education and reception of adults with intellectual disabilities. She directed a Community Housing in Como. She was Councilor for social policies and Deputy mayor, member of the Italian Parliament and Councilor for social and family policies of Regione Lombardia.

Minister for Disabilities

Alessandra Locatelli

Mr. Valastro is a lawyer by profession, specialized in Italian Public Administration, with a master in Labour Law. He has dedicated his life to the Italian Red Cross, serving in top positions from 1993 until his national presidency in 2023. An expert in International Humanitarian Law, he has represented the ItRC in numerous international meetings.

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Rosario Maria Gianluca Valastro

Conflicts, crises and protecting people with disabilities

Chen Jianqi, Phd in Economics，professor at the International Institute of Strategic Studies of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

Jianqi Chen

She has been writing about China since 2003, she had the privilege as foreign correspondent for Il Sole 24 Ore in Beijing, of witnessing the rise and changes of the era of the president Xi Jinping. For Il Sole 24 Ore he has written the investigative books Navi delle false griffe and Oltre la Muraglia.

Rita Fatiguso

Valentina Meliciani is Full Professor of Applied Economics at the University LUISS Guido Carli where she is also Director of the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy. She has a PhD from SPRU (Sussex University) and a Doctorate from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

Valentina Meliciani

Prof. Tria is President of the Foundation Enea Tech and Biomedical. He served as Italy's Minister of Economy and Finance.

Giovanni Tria

Professor, Department of Economics, China Central Party School (China National Academy of Governance). With a Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Economics of Renmin University of China. She obtained her master's degree in science in the School of Management, University of Southampton, UK, majoring in international banking and finance.

Xiaofang Ma 

 The role of the dollar and the internationalization of the renminbi

Donato Masciandaro is Full Professor of Economics, holding the Chair in Economics of Financial Regulation (Bocconi University), where he is also Honorary President of the Baffi Centre, as well as Director of the SDA EPDC Knowledge Area. He is Economic Counsellor at MEF ( Ministry of Economy and Finance), where he is also Director of the Edufin Committee.

Donato Masciandaro

Hawks, doves and leopards: new directions in monetary policy from the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank

Gen. Camporini enlisted in 1965 and in the Cold War he was an operational pilot on the RF-104G. After chairing the Center for High Defense Studies, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Air Force and then of Defense. He is Scientific Advisor to the Istituto Affari Internazionali and Person in Charge for Security and Defense of the party Azione.

Former Chief of Defence

Vincenzo Camporini

Veronica De Romanis is a professor of European Economic policy issues at Stanford University in Florence and at Luiss in Rome (Department of Political Science, School of Government and MBA Program). She was a Member of the Council of Economic Advisors at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. She is an editorialist for the newspaper La Stampa

Veronica De Romanis

Federico Fabbrini is Full Professor of European Law at Dublin City University in Ireland, where he is also Founding Director of the Brexit Institute and the Dublin European Law Institute. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute, taught in various universities in Europe and the USA, and is the author or editor of over 20 books in English and Italian.

Federico Fabbrini

Since 1994, Giuliana Ferraino has been an economics reporter for Corriere della Sera. She focuses on macroeconomics and international economic and financial news. In 2012, she took two courses in Multimedia Storytelling at Columbia University's Graduate school of Journalism.

Economic Journalist

Giuliana Ferraino

Francesco Nicoli is professor at Politecnico di Torino and fellow of the think-tank Bruegel. He specializes on the political economy of crises. He is an expert on experimental and causal inference methods, and he has worked extensively on the European Union, covering issues of economic governance, public goods, and defence.

Francesco Nicoli

What comes first: defence investment or the European army?

The event will take place in the Confcooperative cloud. Greetings from Roberto Simoni, President of the Trentino Cooperation Federation. Ernesto Seppi, President Melinda; Lorenzo Libera, President Cavit; Luca Rigotti, President Mezzacorona; Stefano Albasini, President Trentingrana; Giorgio Fracalossi, President Banca del Trentino Alto Adige; Francesca Gennai, President Consolida; Raffaele Drei, President Confcooperative Fedagripesca, Maurizio Gardini, President Conserve Italia. The event will take place in the Confcooperative cloud

Titans of the Impossible: Cooperatives Stay the Course Amid the Waves of Chaos – 130 Years of Trentino Cooperation

Manuela Brambati

Barbara Poggio is Full Professor of Sociology of Labour and Pro-Rector for Equity and Diversity Policies at the University of Trento. Her main study and research interests include gender inequalities in the world of work.

Barbara Poggio

Linda Laura Sabbadini

Social economies and inequalities: new European rules under discussion

Lawyer, Dr.h.c., professor at the Universities of St. Gallen, Zurich and Insubria, expert at international and Swiss public bodies for anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and international criminal and tax cooperation. As Public Prosecutor in Lugano, he has promoted proceedings against economic crime of an international nature.

Paolo Bernasconi

Alessandro Galimberti 

Francesco Greco

A magistrate since 1981, he served for 29 years at the Milan Prosecutor’s Office, focusing on mafia-related crimes, corruption, and tax offenses. Later, as Deputy Prosecutor in Brescia, he coordinated investigations into fuel fraud and waste trafficking. Since January 2018, he has led the Trento Prosecutor’s Office.

Public Prosecutor at the Court of Trento

Sandro Raimondi

International corruption: the new American laissez-faire

Over her career, Monfreda has directed several Italian magazines, including Donna Moderna for 9 years. In January 2022, Monfreda co-founded Rame, an editorial platform with the goal of democratizing financial well-being. This experience inspired her latest book, “Quali soldi fanno la felicità” (Feltrinelli, 2024).

Co-Founder

Annalisa Monfreda

The price of happiness

Italy – A Mediterranean Hub Between Economy and Politics

The master cheesemaker of the Consortium for the Protection of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana PDO, Mimmo La Vecchia, will guide us to discover the food that comes from raw material processing processes to arrive with a new shape and texture on our table: surprising processes that give life to a cheese. Participation is by reservation at the Muse

Mozzarella di Bufala Campana is the most important DOP/PDO product in Central and Southern Italy. Consorzio di Tutela, established in 1981, is the only body recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture for the protection and promotion of this food excellence.

Consorzio di Tutela Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP

The magic of milk

Giorgio Beltrami

Presidente

Nicola Francia

Graduated with honors in Economics from Roma Tre University. Worked as Investment Analyst at Sofia SGR, currently Senior Advisory Partner at BNL BNP Paribas, supporting clients in financial and wealth planning since 2017.

Financial Advisor

Ginevra Zucconi Galli Fonseca

Pierpaolo Scandurra, active in the markets since 1998, is Managing Director of Certificati e Derivati and Editor of the Certificate Journal. Author and speaker at industry events, he collaborates with ACEPI on specialist training. He heads the Research Office of CedLAB, a platform for certificate analysis.

Managing Director

Pierpaolo Scandurra

Morya Longo is a financial journalist for the daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore since 2000. He wrote about the major Italian crack (from Cirio to Parmalat) and about all the major financial events in Italy and worldwide. Since 2008 he describes the complex dynamics of the financial markets, also as columnist. Before working for Il Sole 24 Ore, he had short experiences in the Italian office of the press agency Reuters, in the weekly newspaper Il Mondo and in Radio 24.

Morya Longo

Certificates and the most famous brick game: a parallel for understanding investment products for individuals

A creative workshop that intertwines art, education and sustainability for girls and boys from 6 to 10 years old. Everyone can imagine, draw and colour, using GIOTTO Supermina crayons and GIOTTO drawing paper, dishes made from planet-friendly ingredients. A way to reflect on the value of our food choices. Participation is by reservation at MUSE

The colors of sustainability: Giotto Supermina crayons to draw a world fit for children

Ecological and digital transition that will give voice to projects and start-ups with a strong innovative capacity

After experience as the face and editor of the main programs of 24Ore TV, she came to Radio 24 with "Salvadanaio." She hosted "Cuore e Denari" with Nicoletta Carbone and now hosts "Due di Denari" with Mauro Meazza. She is the author of several books and a lecturer.

Debora Rosciani  

Central editor of Sole 24 Ore, where he has worked since 1989. He has been in charge of the development of the digital edition of the newspaper. Every morning at 11 a.m., he hosts with Debora Rosciani the program "Due di Denari" on Radio 24.

Mauro Meazza

"Due di denari"- Radio programme

Adriana Castagnoli (University of Turin) is a professional historian and economist who contributes to Il Sole 24 Ore. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Festival dell'Economia di Trento. An essayist, her latest book is "Il mito del Nuovo Ordine Mondiale" (forthcoming).

Adriana Castagnoli

The myth of the new world order

The voices of tomorrow

The road ends when you stop thinking about it: in a frank talk, girls and boys recount episodes of ordinary (in)safety experienced on their skin or by friends. The Observatory 
“Non Chiudere gli Occhi” of Skuola.net and Autostrade per l 'Italia as a mirror of a generation that wants to do better, but needs to talk about it. The meeting will be led by Daniele Grassucci, director of Skuola.net

When a NO can save your life: GenZ tells the tale of driving

Matteo Lovatti, president of the Vesti Solidale cooperative; Carlo Dalmonte, president of Caviro; Valentina Vanzo, president of CER Fiemme; Massimo Stronati, president of Confcooperative Lavoro e Servizi; Roberto Savini, president of Confcooperative Consumo e Utenza. The event will take place in the Confcooperative cloud

Green Revolution: Green Dizziness in the Bureaucratic Swamp

Journalist, he has worked at Sole 24 Ore since 2004. He graduated in Humanities from the Federico II University, and after a move to Rai's educational services he specialized in Journalism at Luiss Guido Carli. With Paolo Legrenzi he wrote "Guida razionale per elettori emotivi. Evitare le trappole mentali che indirizzano le nostre scelte".

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